Slimeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: slīm
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /slaɪm/
  • (General Australian) IPA: /slɑem/
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /slaɪm/, [slɑe̯m]
• 韻: -aɪm
• 韻: -aɪ

名詞

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

   Synonym: sludge

   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

     As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
   • 1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] ‎, How to cleanſe the Teeth, and keep them ſound, page 44:

     You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.

3. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).

   Hyponyms: butter slime, cloud slime

4. (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
   • 1980, Richard Louis Newmann, Siege of Orbitor, page xvii. 78:

     "What about that, you slime?"

   • 2005, G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery:

     If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail.

5. (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
   • 2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices‎, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:

     This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

6. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]

7. (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:3:

     And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

8. (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.

派生語

派生した語

• → French: slime
• → Japanese: スライム (suraimu)
• → Korean: 슬라임 (seullaim)

動詞

slime (third-person singular simple present slimes, present participle sliming, simple past and past participle slimed)

1. (transitive) To coat with slime.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’

   • 2014, Sparkle Abbey, Fifty Shades of Greyhound:

     Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.
   • 1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 20:

     If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.

   • 2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel, →ISBN:

     You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.

4. (intransitive) To move like slime.
5. (intransitive, figurative) To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
6. (transitive, slang) To murder.
7. (transitive, Singapore) To denigrate or slander.

派生語

参照

• (behave unethically): Tony Thorne (2014), “slime”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

アナグラム

• Imels, Liems, Miles, Selim, limes, miles, milse, misle, smile